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...million Reserve price at a Shanghai charity auction for the track shoes worn by Chinese athlete Liu Xiang when he won the 110-m hurdles gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics
DIED. ZHANG CHUNQIAO, 88, the last surviving member of China's notorious Gang of Four, the influential ring of radical Maoists, including Mao's wife Jiang Qing, behind the excesses of Mao's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution; of cancer; in an undisclosed location, although he lived in Shanghai. When a politically threatened Mao started the revolution to cleanse the nation of "bourgeois remnants," his trusted propagandist and deputy led the effort. The ensuing terror, including the assault and imprisonment of legions of perceived enemies, ended in October 1976, a month after Mao's death, when Zhang and his comrades were...
...size of Sinopec’s Sudanese venture pales in comparison to that of PetroChina’s parent, the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), which has poured billions into the East African country, according to Peter S. Goodman, the Shanghai bureau chief of the Washington Post...
...tough so long after the fact? By letting the demonstrations happen at all, Shanghai's leaders appeared to give tacit approval to the anti-Japanese movement...
...Chinese authorities have traditionally been wary of public protests, and they may have been taken aback by the intensity of the protesters' passions. "They never expected so many people to show up," says a top aide to the Shanghai municipal government. "It scared them to see how quickly crowds can form." Another district aide says, "The leaders are nervous. They are doing everything to stop protests from happening again." The strategy worked in 1989, when Shanghai's leaders avoided a fiasco similar to Beijing's Tiananmen Massacre by persuading students to return to their dorms for the sake...